Container and distributer for laundry blue.



F. JOHNSON.

CONTAINER AND DISTRIBUTER FOR LAUNDRY BLUE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19. 1912.

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ITED STATES PAEENT OFFICE.

FRANK JOHNSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONTAINER AND, DISTRIBUTER FOR LAUNDRY BLUE.

distributor for a soluble solid body such as a portion of laundry blue.

The object of the invention is to provide a device which will insure the economical use of the solid, such as laundry blue, and the use of only the amount required at the time.

The nature of the invention will appear,

more fully from the accompanying descriptlon and drawlngs and Wlll be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The drawings represent the preferred form of this invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the container and distribute! with its charge in place; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 without the charge; Fig. 3 is a view taken in cross section on the line 02-04 of Fig. 1.

The device comprises a head 1 having a concavity 2 therein and a handle 3 extending from said head. These parts may be formed of any suitable material and otherwise take any desired shape, but for simplicity of construction the form illustrated, namely one approaching the ordinary spoon, is preferred, and wood is a suitable material. In addition the device comprises means located in the head to engage and interlock with a soluble body to be located in the concavity. Such a means may preferably be a loop shaped retainer 4. whichmay be formed as a wire staple driven into the center of the head and projecting into the concavity. The soluble solid body is then molded lnto the concavity, in the case of laundry blue being poured therein in liquid or molten form and allowed to harden.

The amount placed in the concavity, as indicated at 5, should be of less cubic content than the cubic content of the concavity, so as to leave aspace 6.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 19, 1912.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914:. Serial No. 721,212.

The purpose of this space is to collect and retain any moisture or solution remaining after using the device. It will be necessary that the solid, such as the laundry blue, will be interlocked with the device i and thus firmly held in place until entirely orsub stantially dissolved away.

In the case of laundry blue, for which this device is particularly designed, the container and distributor with its charge is sold ready for use. The usertakes the handle and stirs the water until the desired color is obtained. The device then removed, placed horizontally face upward on the table, and any moisture or solution remaining will collect in the space (3, finally evaporate or harden and not be lost. Thus only so much as is necessary is used at each time and there is no waste of the blue nor ovcrcoloring of the water.

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A container and distributor for a soluble solid body of laundry blue, comprising a head having a concavity therein, a handle extending from said head and means located in said head and projecting into said concavity to engage and interlock with a soluble solid body of laundry blue located in said concavit 2. A container and (liStlllH'ltOl for a soluble solid body oil? laundr blue, comprising a head havin a concavity therein, a handle extending from said head and means located in said head and projecting into said concavity to engage and interlock with a som ble solid body of laundry blue located in said concavity, and a soluble solid body of a laundry blue of less cubic content than said concavity, located therein and engaged and interlocked with said means, whereby any moisture or solution remaining after stirring will collect and be retained in said eoncavity.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANK JOHNSON.

\Vitnesses ALPHoNso A. VYMAN, NATHAN HEARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner, of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

